January 2, 2025
(Washington) — A groundbreaking new essay by Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) legal scholar Erika Bachiochi delivers harsh criticism of progressive ideologues who have undermined “women’s rights” in the name of feminism. In this timely piece, Bachiochi offers a must-read account of feminism’s early writers and calls for a restoration of a classic understanding of the movement.
“Feminism, understood as the peculiar modern ideology of the 20th century, has reached its self-destroying zenith in the erasure of woman in gender ideology and in the putative ‘right’ to intentionally end the life of one’s developing unborn child. But this form of feminism is not worthy of the name.”
Bachiochi takes readers deep into the history of American feminism and reveals the largely Christian origins of the movement. She derides the progressive left’s attempts to utterly erase women and boldly aims to reclaim feminism in its founding form.
Bachiochi ends with a stirring call to action, “a new women’s movement—a pro-woman feminism for the 21st century—could serve women and girls’ true interests again, and thereby uplift men and boys, too, and so inspire, once more, an embattled, divided nation.”
“Rights, Duties, and Relations: Toward a Pro-Woman Feminism for the 21st Century” was commissioned by the Heritage Foundation. Download the full essay here.
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